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Date Sent: 2012-07-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, July 23, 2012 AM edition |
Marine Corps creates LEO battalions -- FAA Authorized 106 Government ‘Entities’ to Fly Drones
Ex-federal official calls U.S. classification system ‘dysfunctional’ --
Supreme Court is asked to find that insanity defense is a constitutional
right -- Monsanto Dramatically Increasing Pressure on Mexico – Wins
Permits to Plant GMO Corn -- US poverty on track to reach 46-year high;
suburbs, underemployed workers, children hit hard -- Ron Paul Rips Romney and Obama For Debating Petty Issues -- NOAA Scientist Joins Alarmist Climate Change Movement -- It's legal: cops seize cell phone, impersonate owner -- Famed Cuban Dissident Oswaldo Paya Dead in Car Crash -- Fred Willard is a Political Prisoner -- Two Things You Don't Know About Syria (If You Only Read The Mainstream Press) -- Florida man killed in police mix-up -- Former GOP candidate ‘would rather die’ than endorse Obama or Romney -- Two Aurora Shootings: One Widely Known; the Other Ignored -- Nazi Gestapo Checkpoints Spread Across America -- Anaheim Cops Fire Rubber Bullets and Sic Dog into Crowd, then Attempt to Buy Witness' Videos -- Super rich hold $32 trillion in offshore havens -- New lab working
on security shoe sole to ID people -- Sex-crime victim could be
jailed for tweeting her attackers' names -- Banks are claiming
“They don’t own foreclosed property due to the up keep cost.” --
Police officer killed victim of break-in -- The Post-Aurora
‘Rampage’ Few Have Heard About -- James Holmes Batman
shooting to justify UN small arms treaty gun grab? -- Massive
Underground Water Supply Found In Desert African Country --
'Minority Report' software hits the real world -- Neurosecurity
Lets You Store a Password In Your Brain Without Remembering It -- A Brainwave-Controlled Version of "Pong" -- Only 1-in-5
Americans Show Confidence in Television News -- 'No one needs
to own a semi-automatic." -- Aftermath in Aurora: Child-Killer as
"Comforter-in-Chief" - by William Grigg -- Joe Paterno
statue taken down -- News Corp.'s Murdoch Steps Down From U.K.
Boards -- New Edition Includes 39 Different Farewell To
'Arms' -- Gun control: Mitt Romney and Barack Obama’s
political record -- Sen. Ron Johnson: 100-round rifle magazine is
a ‘basic freedom’
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News Link • Military
Marine Corps creates law enforcement battalions
07-22-2012
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AP
The Marine Corps has created its first law enforcement battalions - a lean, specialized force of military police officers to quickly deploy worldwide to help investigate crimes from terrorism to drug trafficking and train security forces in allied na
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News Link • Surveillance
FAA Has Authorized 106 Government ‘Entities’ so far to Fly Domestic Drones
07-22-2012
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CNS News
Since Jan. 1 of this year the Federal Aviation Administration has authorized 106 federal, state and local government “entities” to fly “unmanned aircraft systems,” also known as drones, within U.S. airspace.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Ex-federal official calls U.S. classification system ‘dysfunctional’
07-22-2012
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Washington Post
When the government’s espionage case against former National Security Agency official Thomas A. Drake collapsed last year, it meant that a key defense witness didn’t get to take the stand.
The witness, J. William Leonard, the government’s former c
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Supreme Court is asked to find that insanity defense is a constitutional right
07-22-2012
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Washington Post
There’s no doubt John Joseph Delling knew what he was doing. His carefully planned 2007 crime spree lasted weeks, covered 6,500 miles and culminated in two people dead and one seriously wounded.
He had his reasons, too. Delling, then 21, had becom
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News Link • Food
Monsanto Dramatically Increasing Pressure on Mexico " Wins Permits to Plant GMO Corn
07-22-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Strong pressure has been and continues to be applied to the Mexican Federal Government to approve the use of Genetically Engineered Organism´s or GMO´s.
Monsanto is the largest GMO corporation leading and placing pressure on the Government.
Mex
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US poverty on track to reach 46-year high; suburbs, underemployed workers, children hit hard
07-22-2012
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Washington Post
The ranks of America’s poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak economy and fraying government safety net.
Census figures for 2011 will be released this fa
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Rips Romney and Obama For Debating Petty Issues
07-22-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Texas Congressman Ron Paul is urging GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney to release more of his tax returns, claiming it is what the American people want.
Paul told Politico in a candid interview that he isn’t sure why Romney hasn’t released hi
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
NOAA Scientist Joins Alarmist Climate Change Movement
07-22-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Jane Lubchenco from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says that: “Many people around the world are beginning to appreciate that climate change is under way, that it’s having consequences that are playing out in real time and,
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
It's legal: cops seize cell phone, impersonate owner
07-22-2012
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ARS Technica
In November 2009, police officers in the state of Washington seized an iPhone belonging to suspected drug dealer Daniel Lee. While the phone was in police custody, a man named Shawn Hinton sent a text message to the device
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News Link • Cuba
Famed Cuban Dissident Oswaldo Paya Dead in Car Crash
07-22-2012
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Reuters
One of Cuba's best-known dissidents, Oswaldo Paya, leader of the Christian Democratic Movement, died on Sunday in a car crash, religious and dissident sources said.
Paya, 60, was travelling in eastern Granma province at the time of the accident, t
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Fred Willard"Political Prisoner
07-22-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
If you haven't heard by now, actor Fred Willard was arrested for allegedly "pleasuring" himself in a porno theater. (I guess Fred doesn't have Internet access.) I'm not sure what his crime was"because Fred was on PRIVATE property.
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News Link • Syria
Two Things You Don't Know About Syria (If You Only Read The Mainstream Press)
07-22-2012
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Reuters
The current events are not some new phenomenon, are not directly tied to the phony "Arab Spring" democratization movement (Saudi Arabia promoting democracy? Are you joking?). In fact this is a flare up of longstanding attempts to overthrow the Syrian
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Florida man killed in police mix-up
07-22-2012
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Reuters
The death of a man shot inside his home, by a sheriff's deputy who went to the wrong apartment looking for a criminal suspect, has sparked protests this week over police procedures in the central Florida city of Leesburg.
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Former GOP candidate ‘would rather die’ than endorse Obama or Romney
07-22-2012
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The Hill
Gary Johnson, formerly a GOP presidential candidate and now the Libertarian Party nominee, said he “would rather die” than endorse either President Obama or Mitt Romney for president. "Take this to the bank," Johnson said,
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News Link • Gun Rights
Two Aurora Shootings: One Widely Known; the Other Ignored
07-22-2012
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New American
On April 22 of this year a convicted felon, just out of jail, went to an Aurora, Colorado, church and shot and killed a member of the congregation before being killed himself by a congregant carrying a gun.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Nazi Gestapo Checkpoints Spread Across America
07-22-2012
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Adam Strange - Before It's News
Comparing the Department of Homeland Security to the loathed Nazi security police is not too much of a stretch.
The DHS is preparing to implement plans to track all American citizens. Homeland Security is gearing up to install manned security c
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Anaheim Cops Fire Rubber Bullets and Sic Dog into Crowd, then Attempt to Buy Witness' Videos
07-22-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Anaheim police fired multiple rounds of rubber bullets into a crowd of citizens, then sicked a dog on a mother and her child before attempting to collect the video evidence shot by bystanders.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Super rich hold $32 trillion in offshore havens
07-22-2012
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Reuters
- Rich individuals and their families have as much as $32 trillion of hidden financial assets in offshore tax havens, representing up to $280 billion in lost income tax revenues, according to research published on Sunday.
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News Link • Surveillance
New lab working on security shoe sole to ID people
07-22-2012
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AP
Each person has unique feet, and ways of walking. Sensors in the bio-soles check the pressure of feet, monitor gait, and use a microcomputer to compare the patterns to a master file for that person. If the patterns match the bio-soles
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Sex-crime victim could be jailed for tweeting her attackers' names
07-22-2012
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New York Post
A girl who was sexually assaulted now faces jail time for talking about it publicly. Savannah Dietrich, 17, could be locked up on contempt-of-court charges for tweeting the names of her attackers after they got a sweetheart plea bargain
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Forfeiture & Seizure
Banks are claiming “They don’t own foreclosed property due to the up keep cost.”
07-22-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
This is so classic. Banks foreclosed on people and judges of course allowed it through the fraud. Banks have to claim “ownership” and rights to foreclose due to ownership. Once they foreclose they kick the people out through FRAUD of the foreclos
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police officer killed victim of break-in
07-22-2012
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Columbus police confirmed yesterday that it was one of their own officers who shot and killed Thomas while responding to a 911 call he had made on Tuesday morning.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
The Post-Aurora ‘Rampage’ Few Have Heard About
07-22-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
One day after a lethal shooting rampage in Aurora, Colorado left twelve people dead and scores injured, another eruption of criminal violence left one dead and several others injured in Anaheim, California. The perpetrators of the second assault were
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Bill of Rights
James Holmes Batman shooting to justify UN small arms treaty gun grab?
07-22-2012
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
An exploration of the huge questions behind the James Holmes Batman movie theater massacre. Questions include:
* Where did James get his bomb-making training?
* How did James acquire his military-style weapons and gear?
* Why were his actions su
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Geology
Massive Underground Water Supply Found In Desert African Country
07-22-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Kelley
A newly discovered water source could supply half of Africa's driest sub-Saharan country with 400 years of water, reports Matt McGrath of BBC.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Artificial jellyfish swims in a heartbeat
07-22-2012
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Michael Patrick Rutter
...a team of researchers at Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have turned inanimate silicone and living cardiac muscle cells into a freely swimming "jellyfish."
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
New method for associating genetic variation with crop traits
07-22-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Andrew Chapple
A new technique will allow plant breeders to introduce valuable crop traits even without access to the full genome sequence of that crop.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
For gay couples, condom decision-making and condom use varies by race
07-22-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org, Elaine Bible
Black gay couples tend to practice safe sex but don't talk about it, while white gay couples discuss safety but are less likely to use condoms, according to new findings presented at the 19th International AIDS Conference.
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News Link • Technology: Software
'Minority Report' software hits the real world
07-22-2012
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http://phys.org, by Rob Lever
The software behind the film "Minority Report" -- where Tom Cruise speeds through video on a large screen using only hand gestures -- is making its way into the real world.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Neurosecurity Lets You Store a Password In Your Brain Without Remembering It
07-22-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
Usually it’s a problem when you can’t remember a password. But in this particular case, it’s by design. A new security technique mashes up cryptography with neuroscience to create passwords that are stored in users' brains but cannot be recalled, rec
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
For the First Time, X-Ray Video Looks Inside Live Working Batteries
07-22-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca Boyle
Powerful X-ray images are showing for the first time what happens inside a working battery as it discharges power, and it could lead to improvements for a new type of battery that promises better storage capacity at a lower cost.
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
A Brainwave-Controlled Version of "Pong"
07-22-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Ian Chant
Few video games are more basic than Pong, but Charles Moyes and Mengxiang Jiang’s version is incredibly complex. The two Cornell University students built a custom electroencephalography (EEG) device so they could control the game’s onscreen paddle w
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News Link • How To
Strategies for a Changing Planet: Farming
07-22-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Maggie Koerth-Baker
Wheat, rice and corn provide 60 percent of the world's calories -- here's how to prepare them for the future
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News Link • Inventions
Carbon, Bacteria, and Fish Balls: The Machines of the Future
07-22-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Caleb Garling
Today, microprocessors are built with silicon. But tomorrow, they'll be built with something else.
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
TV Fact-Checkers: Breaking Down Breaking Bad’s Dark Chemistry
07-22-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Angela Watercutter
If there’s one thing constantly running through the heads of nerds watching Breaking Bad, it’s that Walter White might be the most badass chemist of all time.
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News Link • Environment
Caffeine Pollution Found in Oregon Coast Waters
07-22-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Wynne Parry
Seawater off the coast of Oregon is polluted with caffeine; however, little caffeine turned up near large population centers and other places where researchers expected to find it.
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Only 1-in-5 Americans Show Confidence in Television News (Infographic)
07-22-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, by Ross Toro
Americans' confidence in television news dropped to a new low, with only 21 percent of adults expressing a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in it, according to a Gallup poll conducted June 7-10.
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News Link • Gun Rights
'No one needs to own a semi-automatic."
07-22-2012
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http://swamp-ass.com
Why just just semiautomatics? For the same reason (whatever that is) that would cause a person to say "no one needs to own semi-automatics" couldn't another person say "no one needs to own ANY guns?" After all, if banning "automatic" weapons i
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Aftermath in Aurora: Child-Killer as "Comforter-in-Chief"
07-22-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Colorado native Abdulrahman al-Awlaki wasn’t in a movie theater when his life met a sudden, violent end. He was enjoying a backyard barbeque with his cousin in Yemen when the home was destroyed by a drone-delivered Hellfire missile.
Abdulrahman wa
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Joe Paterno statue taken down
07-22-2012
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The Joe Paterno statue was removed Sunday morning from its pedestal outside Beaver Stadium, and it will be stored in an unnamed "secure location," Penn State president Rodney Erickson announced. Erickson also said the Paterno name will remain on the
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
News Corp.'s Murdoch Steps Down From U.K. Boards
07-22-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by The Associated Press
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has resigned as a director of a number of News Corp. boards overseeing his Britain newspapers
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News Link • Books
New Edition Includes 39 Different Farewells To 'Arms'
07-22-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by NPR Staff
Ernest Hemingway began his second novel, A Farewell to Arms, in 1928.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Spain's Olympic Basketball Team Takes Aim At U.S.
07-22-2012
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http://www.npr.org, by Lauren Frayer
Spain is a country that partied for days after winning the European Soccer Championships earlier this month.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
How Bad Is Junk Food For Your DNA?
07-22-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Raluca Schachter
If we all dropped dead after eating junk food, the message would have been loud and clear: DO NOT INGEST!
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News Link • How To
23 Ingenious Uses For White Vinegar
07-22-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Allison Ford
About 10,000 years ago, ancient people discovered a product that would change lives forever.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
The Many Health Benefits of Raw Honey
07-22-2012
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http://wakeup-world.com, By Jordan & Kyla Miller
Some people refer to it as “liquid gold”, but most of us understand it as honey.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Sen. Ron Johnson: 100-round rifle magazine is a ‘basic freedom’
07-22-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By David Edwards
Tea party-backed Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) says that the right to own high-capacity ammunitions magazines like the 100-round drum that was used to kill at least a dozen people in Colorado last week is a “basic freedom” that is protected by the U.S. Con
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun control: Mitt Romney and Barack Obama’s political record
07-22-2012
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http://www.rawstory.com, By Matt Williams
The Colorado theatre shooting has put the two candidates for president on the spot about their stances on gun control
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News Link • Food
USDA Confiscates and Kills Dairy Sheep (Video)
07-22-2012
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Farmageddon
This 11-minute clip is taken from the documentary "Farmageddon." If you'd like to fight back and / or support the makers of the film, visit their website for more info: http://farmageddonmovie.com/
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Whole Country May Soon Look Like These American Wastelands
07-21-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Snyder
Do you want to see where this country is headed? If so, don't focus on the few areas that are still very prosperous.
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News Link • Surveillance
U.S. Admits Surveillance Violated Constitution At Least Once
07-21-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Spencer Ackerman
The head of the U.S. government’s vast spying apparatus has conceded that recent surveillance efforts on at least one occasion violated the Constitutional prohibitions on unlawful search and seizure.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
TSA Supersedes the Courts
07-20-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
In a very rare victory for the serfs and a very tiny one, too, the judge declared Mr. Brennan’s nudity “a form of protest, which is protected speech,” not the “disruption” the TSA alleged. But things aren’t over for Brennan yet. The TSA is
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News Link • Seriously?
'How hard is it to sell a hot dog?' asks 13-year-old entrepreneur shut down by Holland City
07-20-2012
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Garret Ellison/mlive
A 13 year old trying to help out his family who has fallen on hard times has been shut down by authorities for a zoning violation in regard to the hot dog cart he hoped to set up. After saving up, getting the proper insurance, and jumping through the
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News Link • Surveillance
Super-Silent Owl Drone Will Spy on You Without You Ever Noticing
07-20-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert Beckhusen
For spy tools, drones are pretty easy to spot. And hear, because they’re as loud as a gut-busting rock concert. But now the intelligence community’s research division, Iarpa, plans to start designing a silent drone inspired by quiet, creeping, flying
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Three US Aircraft Carriers Now In The Middle East With Fourth En Route
07-20-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Zero Hedge
A week ago we reported news that Middle East veteran aircraft carrier CVN-74 Stennis was ending its brief sabbatical prematurely, and far earlier than previously expected, and heading right back into the field, er sea, of action.
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Secret Online Weapons Store That’ll Sell Anyone Anything
07-20-2012
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www.gizmodo.com
With nothing more than money and a little online savoir faire, you can buy weapons"Glocks, Berettas, PPKs, AK-47s, Bushmaster rifles, even a grenade"in secret, shipped anywhere in the world.
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